Important Contacts Course Organiser David Carmel davecarmeledacuk Room F16 7GS Teaching Coordinator Kasia Banas kasiabanasedacuk Room G10 7GS Course Secretary ID: 647189
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Psychology Y4 Honours2016-2017Slide2Slide3
Important Contacts
Course
Organiser
:
David Carmeldave.carmel@ed.ac.ukRoom F16 (7GS)
Teaching Coordinator: Kasia Banaskasia.banas@ed.ac.ukRoom G10 (7GS)
Course Secretary:
September: Stephanie Fong,
S.Fong@ed.ac.uk
After September: Toni Noble,
Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk
Room G.06 (DSB)
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Careers Talk: 23rd September
Dr
Janet Forsyth from the Careers Service
Room F21, 7 George Square
Friday 23rd September, 1pm
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Course structure (Single Honours)
Six option
courses (10 credits each)
Some options assessed by exam in May
Some courses assessed in other waysAutomatic wait list (for everyone, not just single Hons)Tutorial Course (10 credits) Small group teaching in blocks 2 and 3Assessment through 1000-word written work OR PowerPoint presentation OR poster at end of each blockGeneral paper (10 credits)
Dissertation (40 credits)Slide6
Joint Honours
2-4 option courses
, which may include the tutorial course (10 credits each)
Joint
honours students don’t do general paper.Joint honours students usually choose to do dissertation in psychology (needed for BPS accreditation)For BPS accreditation, you need to make sure that your courses across years 3 and 4 cover the 5 BPS core areas:Social, developmental, cognitive, differential, biologicalalso Methodology 1 & 2Slide7
Junior Year Abroad Students
If you are interested in
BPS accreditation
, you need to make sure that you take courses in the 5 core areas across your JYA and year 4.
If you didn't take a stats course in your overseas institution, or didn’t take a comprehensive enough stats course, you should register for RMS2 and/or RMS3 this year.If you are unsure about which methodology courses you should take, contact Tom Booth!! tom.booth@ed.ac.ukStay here after this meeting for a few words with KasiaSlide8
Medical students
Four options from Psychology 4
(10 credits each)
(Not five!)
Two options from Psychology 3 (10 credits each) RMS 1 (20 credits)Dissertation (40 credits)Slide9
New online handbookAll handbook materials are now onlineStill new… Might contain bugs (let us know!)FAQ needs filling upLinks, updates and news will be posted in the online handbook – you’ll get emails alerting you to changes
http://
www.handbooks.psy.ed.ac.uk
/psychology-
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Dissertations
Students usually work in pairs
Most projects have already been allocated, but you can
still change
to another available Deadline for finalising project (title+supervisor) is Thursday 6th October, 4pm [an upload link will be available in the ‘Dissertation’ section of the Year 4 handbook from Thursday 29th September]Dissertation deadline: 4pm, Wednesday 29th March 2017Slide11
Dissertation poster dayMake a poster presentation of your poster, and receive staff feedback and give/receive peer feedback (unassessed)
Coordinator
Kasia
Banas: Kasia.Banas@ed.ac.ukTalk on poster preparation: Friday 7 October, 1pmProbably in F21 (but watch out for emails)Poster day: Wednesday 23 November, concourseSlide12
Psychology General PaperThe General Paper is a 10 credit module, assessed by exam in MayIn the exam, you need to answer two essay-type questions on general topics in Psychology
There is no specific teaching for the General Paper, but general paper topics are often covered in tutorials.
Examples of past questions can be seen in the on-line exam papers (accessed via library website) Slide13
Y4 Reps for SSLCThe staff-student liaison committee (SSLC) needs 2 student representatives2 meetings per semesterCollect student comments, feed back to staff and vice versa.
(see email 4 August)
Send your application to
ppls.sso@ed.ac.uk
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What you have to do now
Finalise your choice of courses.
Any changes to timetable
Requests for course changes should be directed to the course secretary, Stephanie Fong
S.Fong@ed.ac.ukFinalise your choice of dissertation projectSlide15
Psychology Outreach ProgramCourse part of Geosciences, with Psychology angleStudent ‘Consultants’ work with community ‘Clients’ to develop a ‘Product’Run over 2 semestersSemester 1: Skills workshops, identifying clients
Semester 2: Product design & delivery, write-up
Legacy Products
Teaching materials, videos, pamphlets, apps, events,
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Psychology Outreach ProgramAssessment Continuous:
Interim
project report (December) and presentation to peers (February) – 15%
Summative:
Final product – 40% Technical report – 20% Reflective diary / journal and project timeline – 15% Personal reflective document and project flyer – 10% Contact Dr Bonnie Auyeung atbonnie.auyeung@ed.ac.uk